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Quotes on Death
God pours
life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
~Author
Unknown~
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"
- a strange
complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
~Mark Twain~
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I'm not afraid of death.
It's the
stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929~
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There is always death and taxes;
however,
death doesn't get worse every year.
~Author
Unknown~
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death
than
animals that know nothing.
~Maurice
Maeterlinck~
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die,
but he
can never know that he is dead.
~Samuel
Butler~
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Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught,
And spent my little life without a thought,
And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim,
Should think of me, who never thought of him.
~Renι Francois Regnier~
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who
lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
~Mark
Twain~
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears.
We must
not demean life by standing in awe of death.
~David
Sarnoff~
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Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark;
and as that
natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
~Francis
Bacon, Essays~
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If you spend all your time worrying about dying,
living isn't
going to be much fun.
~From the
television show Roseanne~
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Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
~Henry
Van Dyke~
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He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
~Giovanni Falcone~
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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of
life
which
bears no relation to true immortality but through which
they continue
to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive.
It is
as though they were traveling abroad.
~Marcel Proust~
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Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality
~Emily Dickinson~
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age;
he dies of
being a man.
~Percival Arland Ussher~
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
~Ashley
Montagu~
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
~Lord
Byron~
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
~Euripides~
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While I thought that I was learning how to live,
I have been
learning how to die.
~Leonardo Da
Vinci~
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Life is better than death, I believe,
if only
because it is less boring,
and because
it has fresh peaches in it.
~Alice
Walker~
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I shall not die of a cold.
I shall die
of having lived.
~Willa
Cather~
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Death is a distant rumour to the young.
~Andrew A.
Rooney~
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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
~Thomas
Mann, The Magic Mountain~
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There are so many little dyings
that it
doesn't matter which of them is death.
~Kenneth
Patchen~
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